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Bolivia   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Lonely Planet Bolivia  •  Kate Armstrong
GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 432 PAGES
A practical guide with detailed maps, language guides, tips on transportation, accommodations, food, health and safety advice, as well as good background on history, culture and politics. (BOL07, $24.99)
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Bradt Trekking Guide Peru and Bolivia  •  Hilary Bradt   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This classic guide for exploring the Andes of Peru and Bolivia is great for both practical trail information and general information on the region. It's a compact overview, featuring walks, treks and an extensive introduction. (BOL04, $17.95)
 
 
Footprint Bolivia Handbook  •  Alan Murphy   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive and sturdy guide to Bolivia by the publishers of the South America Handbook. (BOL10, $24.95)
 
 
Bolivia, The Evolution of a Multi-Ethnic Society  •  Herbert Klein   • HISTORY  •  A scholarly look at the cultural history of Bolivia. (BOL01, $32.95)
 
 
Conquest of the Incas  •  John Hemming   • HISTORY  •  A masterful, prize-winning history of the Inca struggle against the Spanish invasion. This classic account, by one of the best writers on South America, brings together wide-ranging scholarly material in the interests of telling a good story. (AND04, $25.00)
 
 
Digging Up Butch and Sundance  •  Anne Meadows   • HISTORY  •  A woman and her husband try to uncover the truth behind the story of the famous outlaws. (USW351, $22.00)
 
 
I Am Rich Potosi, The Mountain that Eats Men  •  Stephen Ferry  •  Eduardo Galeano   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A gorgeous color photo essay focusing on the people and history of Potosi, a silver center in the Bolivian highlands. (BOL09, $45.00)
 
 
Liberators, Latin America's Struggle for Independence 1810-1830  •  Robert Harvey   • HISTORY  •  An epic history of colonial Latin America, focused on the heroism and derring-do of seven legendary men, including Simon Bolivar and General Jose de San Martin, in the fight for independence from Spain. (SAM35, $18.95)
 
 
Modern Latin America  •  Thomas E. Skidmore  •  Peter Smith   • HISTORY  •  A succinct history of 20th-century Latin America that examines the politics, economy and people of Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Cuba, Central America and the Caribbean. (SAM23, $52.95)
 
 
Mountain of the Condor, Metaphor and Ritual in an Andean Ayllu  •  Joseph W. Bastien   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An account of the rituals practiced by a small community inhabiting Kaata, a sacred mountain in midwestern Bolivia. (AND28, $16.50)
 
 
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent  •  Eduardo Galeano  •  Cedric Belfrage   • HISTORY  •  The most wrenchingly beautiful history of plunder and exploitation in Latin America ever written. (AND26, $18.00)
 
 
People of the Andes  •  James B. Richardson III   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • OUT OF PRINT  •  A comprehensive, up-to-date, and illustrated introduction to the culture and archaeology of the Andes, especially the Inca empire, written by a widely recognized expert. (AND01, $24.95)
 
 
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A Guide to the Birds of Colombia  •  Steven Hilty  •  William Brown   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A classic South American bird guide with good coverage of the upper Amazon basin. It illustrates 1,700 species -- nearly half of all the species of South America. (FG14, $67.50)
 
 
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